Babysitter Kept Missing Girl Aliahna Lemmon’s Head in His Freezer

iStockphoto/Thinkstock(FORT WAYNE, Ind.) — The babysitter charged with killing a 9-year-old girl who disappeared from an Indiana trailer park dismembered her body and kept her head, feet and hands in his freezer, according to a police affidavit.

Michael Plumadore, 39, shuffled into court Tuesday, manacled at this feet and hands. He was ordered held without bail, police said. He was escorted by two Allen County police officers. There were additional officers in the courtroom for extra security.

He was jailed in the death of Aliahna Lemmon, 9, who disappeared from a Fort Wayne trailer park where she lived last week.

A police affidavit submitted to the court Tuesday stated that Plumadore “freely admitted” that in the “early morning hours” last Thursday, he struck Aliahna in the head multiple times with a brick “while she was standing on the front steps of his residence.”

He put the girl’s body in several trash bags and stuffed her in a freezer until nighttime came. He worked past midnight dismembering Aliahna’s body with a hack saw, the affidavit, obtained by ABC News, states. He put the pieces in garbage gas and tossed them in a dumpster of a nearby business, but kept her head, hands and feet in his freezer.

Plumadore did not tell police why he killed the young girl.

Plumadore, who had been babysitting Aliahna and her two sisters for a week because their mother was ill, initially told police that he has last seen Aliahna sleeping in his trailer on Friday but didn’t alert police to her disappearance until Friday night because he believed she had gone home to her mother.

Allen County Sheriff Ken Fries said the girl’s body was found after 9 p.m. Monday night.

Plumadore was arrested after his third interview with police, Cpl. Jeremy Tinkel told ABC News.

Fries said Plumadore has a criminal record in North Carolina and Florida.